Creative Capital
Title | Creative Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Spencer E. Ante |
Publisher | Harvard Business Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2008-04-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1422129519 |
Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground--and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence. In Creative Capital, Spencer Ante tells the compelling story of the enigmatic and quirky man--Georges Doriot--who created the venture capital industry. The author traces the pivotal events in Doriot's life, including his experience as a decorated brigadier general during World War II; as a maverick professor at Harvard Business School; and as the architect and founder of the first venture capital firm, American Research and Development. It artfully chronicles Doriot's business philosophy and his stewardship in startups, such as the important role he played in the formation of Digital Equipment Corporation and many other new companies that later grew to be influential and successful. An award-winning Business Week journalist, Ante gives us a rare look at a man who overturned conventional wisdom by proving that there is big money to be made by investing in small and risky businesses. This vivid portrait of Georges Doriot reveals the rewards that come from relentlessly pursuing what-if possibilities--and offers valuable lessons for business managers and investors alike.
Cultural Capital
Title | Cultural Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hewison |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1781685924 |
Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything, from national decline to crime. Tony Blair heralded it a “golden age.” Yet despite huge investment, the audience for the arts remained a privileged minority. So what went wrong? In Cultural Capital, leading historian Robert Hewison gives an in-depth account of how creative Britain lost its way. From Cool Britannia and the Millennium Dome to the Olympics and beyond, he shows how culture became a commodity, and how target-obsessed managerialism stifled creativity. In response to the failures of New Labour and the austerity measures of the Coalition government, Hewison argues for a new relationship between politics and the arts.
Mirror / Echo / Tilt
Title | Mirror / Echo / Tilt PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Crean |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781733295710 |
Half experimental catalogue and half living curriculum, Mirror/Echo/Tilt is one part of a four-year pedagogical project created by artists Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith. The publication documents the artists' examination of the language and gestures used to describe experiences of arrest and incarceration and looks to counter culturally embedded conceptions of criminality.
China's New Creative Clusters
Title | China's New Creative Clusters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Keane |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113634585X |
Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative industries. This book examines these new creative clusters, outlining their nature and purpose, and assessing their effectiveness. Drawing on case studies of a range of cluster models, and comparing them with international examples, the book demonstrates that creativity, both in China and internationally, is in fact a process of fitting new ideas to existing patterns, models and formats. It shows how large and exceptionally impressive creative clusters have been successfully established, but raises the important questions of whether profit or culture is the driving force, and of whether the bringing together of independent-minded, creative people, entrepreneurial businessmen, preferential policies and foreign investment may in time lead to unintended changes in social and political attitudes in China, including a weakening of state bureaucratic power. An important contribution to the existing literature on the subject, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban studies, cultural geography, cultural economics and Asian studies.
Walter De Maria
Title | Walter De Maria PDF eBook |
Author | Jane McFadden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Artists' preparatory studies |
ISBN | 9781780236674 |
As one of the most innovative artists of the last six decades, Walter De Maria challenged art in profound ways. He is known worldwide for his important sculptures such as Lightning Field, but his contributions to the practices of music, drawing, photography, and film have been largely forgotten. Featuring in-depth analysis of many previously unknown works and correspondence, this book offers the first major critical account of de Maria's broader range of interests. In a 1960 score, Walter De Maria called for "meaningless work: " art that does not "accomplish a conventional purpose." He followed this call with a dizzying period of experimentation. The resulting work reflected shifts in how we understand the sites of art during an era of moon shots and road trips, of wars that moved from jungles into living rooms via electromagnetic waves. It helped us understand ourselves and how race, gender, and sexuality vie for space in the social realm. By bringing to light de Maria's lesser-known works, this book challenges established histories and methodologies for the art of the 1960s and '70s, while also exploring de Maria's own obsessions with art's uttermost possibilities.
While Standing in Line for Death
Title | While Standing in Line for Death PDF eBook |
Author | C. A. Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781940696546 |
Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action.
Census
Title | Census PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse Ball |
Publisher | Granta Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-03-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1783783761 |
'CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas A father and son who are census takers journey across a nameless country from the town of A to the town of Z in the wake of the father's fatal diagnosis. Knowing that his time is menacingly short, the father takes his son, who requires close and constant adult guidance, on this trip of indefinite length. Their feelings for each other are challenged and bolstered as they move in and out of a variety of homes, meeting a variety of different people. Census is about the ways in which people react to the son's condition, to the son as a person in the world. It is about discrimination and acceptance, kindness and art, education and love. It is a profoundly moving novel, glowing with wisdom and grace, roaring with a desire to change the world.